Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist - Personality Difficulties

West London NHS Trust

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Job summary

Exciting new opportunity for Clinical/Counselling Psychologists in the MINT teams in Ealing, West London NHS Trust

We are seeking a Band 8A Clinical or Counselling psychologist to work in one of our new Mental Health Integrated Network (MINT) teams. These teams are innovative and cover both primary and secondary care adult mental health provision. The post involves providing psychological assessments and treatment to adults with a wide range of problems, but the specific post will have a focus on people with complex emotional/personality difficulties. We would welcome applications from clinicians with a special interest in the specific area, who wish to develop specialist skills. The service is happy to support them through training and specialist supervision.

The role will involve broader liaison and joint working with other services/stakeholders including IAPT and external agencies to address service users' psychological needs in a variety of ways.

Main duties of the job

The post holder would be a member of one of three MDTs in Ealing, and would be expected to contribute to the development and delivery of treatment pathways within these teams. But also to support the teams more generally in formulating and caring for service users with complex emotional needs and personality difficulties.

The psychology team aims to offer a range of evidence-based treatments, including DBT and MBT. Training in all these therapies is made available, delivered by expert external providers, and supported with the necessary specialist supervision.

As well as working within an MDT, the post holder will be part of the wider MINT psychology team, covering the three MINT teams in Ealing. This includes clinical and counselling psychologists, CBT therapists, and clinical associate psychologists, as well as students and trainees. We work together in delivering evidence based group therapies and reflective practice. We also promote the principles of trauma informed care. You will also develop close working relationships with other local psychologists in related services.

As already mentioned, there is an excellent CPD programme. Half a day a week is set aside for CPD, and training is available in therapies such as EMDR, MBT and DBT, which can lead to accreditation in these therapies. We can also support training in other models to support your personal and professional development where it will enhance the service we are able to offer our service users.

About us

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We'rerated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

The regulations mandating vaccination for in-scope roles in the NHS have now been removed. The Trust does however continue to encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. Vaccination data will be collected by our recruitment team during your on-boarding if you are happy to provide a copy of your COVID pass.

Date posted

06 June 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£47,126 to £53,219 a year plus HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

222-LS-MINT-069-E

Job locations

MINT Psychology - Ealing

London

UB2 4AU


Job description

Job responsibilities

The Trust is committed to developing excellent services and the post holder will be part of a team excited by, and striving for, optimal recovery outcomes for each individual who uses our services. We are looking for someone to develop and deliver comprehensive packages of care which are both psychologically and trauma informed.The post-holder will contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

The post-holder will be responsible, as a member of the psychology service, for the provision of a full and comprehensive specialist psychology service to culturally diverse service users with severe and enduring mental health disorders. They will contribute to meetings where referrals and service users presentations are discussed, providing specialist psychological assessments and therapies and advice on risk management, and consultation to other colleagues involved in service users care. Furthermore, the psychological support includes a well-developed group programme with specialist groups and the post-holder will have the opportunity to facilitate some of them. They will also become part of our DBT provision, while we are in the process of developing our MBT programme.

The post holder will work as a clinical member of a multi-disciplinary team, including appropriate attendance at team and other service user related meetings. The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

As an autonomous practitioner he/she will be responsible for their own work and interventions and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Trust is committed to developing excellent services and the post holder will be part of a team excited by, and striving for, optimal recovery outcomes for each individual who uses our services. We are looking for someone to develop and deliver comprehensive packages of care which are both psychologically and trauma informed.The post-holder will contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

The post-holder will be responsible, as a member of the psychology service, for the provision of a full and comprehensive specialist psychology service to culturally diverse service users with severe and enduring mental health disorders. They will contribute to meetings where referrals and service users presentations are discussed, providing specialist psychological assessments and therapies and advice on risk management, and consultation to other colleagues involved in service users care. Furthermore, the psychological support includes a well-developed group programme with specialist groups and the post-holder will have the opportunity to facilitate some of them. They will also become part of our DBT provision, while we are in the process of developing our MBT programme.

The post holder will work as a clinical member of a multi-disciplinary team, including appropriate attendance at team and other service user related meetings. The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

As an autonomous practitioner he/she will be responsible for their own work and interventions and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good honours degree (2:1 minimum) in Psychology.
  • Eligibility for graduate membership of BPS
  • Post-graduate doctorate in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the BPS
  • Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council
  • Training in clinical supervision for doctoral, and equivalent, trainees

Desirable

  • Other related academic and post-graduate qualifications
  • Evidence of post-doctoral training in psychological therapy techniques

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
  • Experience of having facilitated/co-facilitated psychological therapy groups

Desirable

  • Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
  • Experience of administration, scoring and written interpretation of psychometric / neuropsychological tests
  • Experience of working as a qualified (specialist) psychologist in a relevant clinical setting

Knowledge

Essential

  • Advanced specialist knowledge, both theoretical and practical, of psychology applied to clinical practice
  • Completion of at least 1 year's supervised practice in specialist clinical practice
  • Specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of the assessment and treatment of complex mental health problems

Desirable

  • Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for work in relevant setting

Skills

Essential

  • Able to provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills such as would be required when communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
  • Able to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the evaluation of a range of options (e.g. the assessment of specialist clinical conditions and the determination of treatment options), Where expert opinions may differ
  • Able to plan, prioritise and organise own service user caseload, treatment programmes (individual or group) involving other staff, and other aspects of the work such as research activity
  • Able to use database, word processing and test administration/scoring software
  • Able to sit for lengthy periods of time while demonstrating active listening skills
  • Able to maintain intense concentration frequently and for prolonged periods
  • Able to function in highly emotionally distressing circumstances on a frequent basis (e.g. in dealing with service users with serious mental illness, histories of homicide and serious violence, self-harm, sexual abuse)

Desirable

  • Working knowledge of SPSS

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Knowledge of the professional code of conduct of the BPS
  • Must be capable of being guided by precedent, clearly defined policies, procedures and codes of conduct
  • Able to reflect on own professional practice
  • Willing to participate actively in CPD in line with BPS guidelines
  • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
  • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

Desirable

  • Experience of working within a multicultural framework
  • Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good honours degree (2:1 minimum) in Psychology.
  • Eligibility for graduate membership of BPS
  • Post-graduate doctorate in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the BPS
  • Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council
  • Training in clinical supervision for doctoral, and equivalent, trainees

Desirable

  • Other related academic and post-graduate qualifications
  • Evidence of post-doctoral training in psychological therapy techniques

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
  • Experience of having facilitated/co-facilitated psychological therapy groups

Desirable

  • Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
  • Experience of administration, scoring and written interpretation of psychometric / neuropsychological tests
  • Experience of working as a qualified (specialist) psychologist in a relevant clinical setting

Knowledge

Essential

  • Advanced specialist knowledge, both theoretical and practical, of psychology applied to clinical practice
  • Completion of at least 1 year's supervised practice in specialist clinical practice
  • Specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of the assessment and treatment of complex mental health problems

Desirable

  • Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for work in relevant setting

Skills

Essential

  • Able to provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills such as would be required when communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
  • Able to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the evaluation of a range of options (e.g. the assessment of specialist clinical conditions and the determination of treatment options), Where expert opinions may differ
  • Able to plan, prioritise and organise own service user caseload, treatment programmes (individual or group) involving other staff, and other aspects of the work such as research activity
  • Able to use database, word processing and test administration/scoring software
  • Able to sit for lengthy periods of time while demonstrating active listening skills
  • Able to maintain intense concentration frequently and for prolonged periods
  • Able to function in highly emotionally distressing circumstances on a frequent basis (e.g. in dealing with service users with serious mental illness, histories of homicide and serious violence, self-harm, sexual abuse)

Desirable

  • Working knowledge of SPSS

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Knowledge of the professional code of conduct of the BPS
  • Must be capable of being guided by precedent, clearly defined policies, procedures and codes of conduct
  • Able to reflect on own professional practice
  • Willing to participate actively in CPD in line with BPS guidelines
  • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
  • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

Desirable

  • Experience of working within a multicultural framework
  • Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

West London NHS Trust

Address

MINT Psychology - Ealing

London

UB2 4AU


Employer's website

https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

West London NHS Trust

Address

MINT Psychology - Ealing

London

UB2 4AU


Employer's website

https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Consultant Psychologist

Dimitra Lorentzatou

dimitra.lorentzatou@westlondon.nhs.uk

Date posted

06 June 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£47,126 to £53,219 a year plus HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

222-LS-MINT-069-E

Job locations

MINT Psychology - Ealing

London

UB2 4AU


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